Quigley, Colin(University of Illinois Press for Society for Ethnomusicology, 1993)

Examines the compositional process of a Newfoundland fiddler, Emile Benoit. Several transcriptions are provided in order to illustrate connections of melodic structure between tunes, challenging previous theories about ...

While many folklorists might find the tabulation of Child
ballad statistics a tedious and somewhat anachronistic exercise, few
would deny the historical value of describing in detail the results of
one phase of Canadian ...

Ethnic-national discourse in traditional music and dance practice and theory in central Transylvania is pervasive and persistent. Scholarship in the field has been deeply implicated in the elaboration and imposition of ...

Following the drastic co-option of German folk music in the ideological service of the Nazi regime during the Third Reich (1933-1945), the genre’s performative practice was left highly marginalised. Confronted with this ...

This essay examines the impact of fieldwork on the life of the rural villages in Transylvania that have been the site of significant ethnochoreological and revival-movement research since the 1960s. It challenges ...

Quigley, Colin(Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2016)

This essay takes the term
choreomusical as a starting place for
discussion of attention to the study of
music and dance relationships within
ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology.
Extending this neologism,
choreomusicology ...

Through the theoretical lenses of agency, autonomy, resistance, and resilience, this
ethnographic study reveals how professional musicians and cultural workers
experience the neoliberalisation of cultural production in ...

This research is an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between Irish Traditional and North Indian Classical music. It is an attempt to explore, in both a rigorous academic manner and through professional ...

This dissertation, the first extensive academic work on Txalaparta as a social
phenomenon, explores the ongoing revival and construction of this tradition and
percussion instrument amid the Basque struggle for ...

Traditional singers in Ireland today gather in singing sessions to share traditional songs. A significant number of individuals involved in traditional singing in Ireland have expressed concern about the sustainability of ...

Quigley, Colin(Irish World Academy of Music and Dance: University of Limerick, 2010)

In regional step dance traditions, a shared dance idiom may become identified as a regional style through a selection of certain movement features based on the dancing of just a few key individuals. Step dancing traditions ...